The PHY consists of a PMA hard macro that supports PCIe 5.0, 4.0, 3.0 and 2.0 protocols and a physical coding sublayer (PCS) soft macro for PCIe that is PIPE 5.2 compliant. Co-verified with the Northwest Logic Expresso 5.0 digital controller, the PHY can also be integrated with 3rd-party PIPE 5.2-compliant controllers.